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MAOHINE FOR MATTING HAIR.

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A. L. SGHNEIDT." 1V[A(LE [I1 IE FORMATTINGF HAIR.

N0. 360,918. Patented Apr. -12, 1887 AUGUST L. SOHNEIDT, OF

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WAUVATOSA, VVISOONSIN.

MATTING HAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,918, dated April 12, 1887.

Application filed August 13, 1886. Serial No. 210,546. (No ll'lOdlL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST L. SCHNEIDT, of Wauwatosa. in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Matting Hair; and'I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters or figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in machines for matting loose curled hair into sheets, for convenience in use or shipping.

The construction of my invention is explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure. 1 represents a perspective view thereof. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 isatop view of one side of the same. Fig. 4 represents one of the sheets formed from hair by the machine.

Like parts of the machine are referred to by the same referenceletters throughout the several views.

Areprescnts a cylinder, from the periphery of which project numerous sharp-pointed teeth, B,which are arranged at a tangent to the surface of the cylinder, thusforming a cylindrical hackle, by which, as said cylinder is rapidly rotated, the hair is combed out and gradually drawn around the cylinder. The hair thus operated upon is fed from the table Oto the cylinder A, preferably by a double set of feedrolls, D and E; but one set of rolls might be used.

Motion is communicated from a motive power first to the cylinder A through the bandpulley F, which is affixed to one end of the shaft of said cylinder A. Motionis communicated fromthe opposite end of said cylindershaft to one of the feed-rollsthrough the bandpulley G, band H, band-pulley I, gears J, K, and L, and from said feed-roll to the other three feed-rolls by the chain of gears a, b, c, d, and e,which gears are so arranged as to cause both sets of feed-rolls to co-operate in feeding forward the stuff between them toward the hackle-cylinder A. -Thus it is obvious that the loose or bulk hair as it is being combed and drawn upon said cylinder is retained sufficiently by said feed-rolls to prevent large quantities from being caught at once, the result being to distribute the hair uniformly over the surface of the cylinder. When asufficient quantity of hair has thus been drawn upon the cylinder to form a mat of the desired thickness, the rotary movement ofthe cylinder is stopped, and the teeth of the toothed bar or comb M are inclined forward from the vertical position shown in Fig. 2 to that indicated by dotted lines in said figure, so that their pointed ends are caused to bear against the periphery of said cylinder beneath the mat of hair. WVhen the comb is thus secured, the cylinder A is rotated slowly backward one revolution, whereby the entire mat of hair drops therefrom upon the endless belt or apron N. The comb M is suspended from the standards P at its ends by trunnions R. Projecting upward from the frame or back of the comb is a short lever, S, to which the locking-bar T is pivoted. The bar T has notches in its free end, which engage upon a pin, a, which projects from the side of the frame of the machine. Thus it is obvious that the teeth of the comb may be retained either in thevertical position, as shown, or at the desired inclination against the cylinder, by changing the position of the bar T upon the retaining-pin a. 1

Tofacilitatesmoothingdownthehairuponthe cylinder as it isbeing drawn thereon,I provide several series of downward-projecting teeth, 9 g g, which are affixed to the inside of the cover A. The cover A is hinged at one edge to the frame B, and-when the machine is in use it rests of its own gravity in the position shown in Fig, 2, but may be readily thrown back on its hinges when desired, as shown in Fig. 1. The endless belt N is supported at its respect- We ends upon cylinders O and D, to one of which a hand or band wheel, E, is attached, by which motion may becommunicated to said shaft, and from thence to the endless beltN,as the mat is being removed from the cylinder.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. In amachine formatting orsheetinghair, the combination of a rotating cylinder provided with pins orvhackling-teeth rigidly af fixed to its surface, and with means for rotating it, two or more cylindrical rolls for feeding and holding the hair in contact with the hackling-teeth, and a movable comb or toothed bar for disengaging the matting from the cylinder, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of a cylinder, A, hackling-teeth B, affixed to the periphery of said cylinder, cover A, provided with one or more series of teeth, 9, two or more sets of feed-rolls, D E, means for communicating motion from the driveshaft of said cylinder to said feed rolls, and a movable comb, M, pivoted at its respective ends to a frame and provided with means for moving and adjusting thelowerend of its teeth from and against said cylinder, as set forth.

3. The combination 'of cylinder A, hacle ling-teeth B,afiixed to the surface of said cylinder, cover A, provided with a series of teeth, 9, two sets of feed-rolls, D and E, chain of gears a, b, c, d, and c, and means for communicating motion from the drive-shaft to said chain of gears, comb M, provided with means for changing and holding it at the desired inclinations toward and from said cylinder, and endless belt N, supported at its respective ends upon rotating cylinders and provided with means for rotating one of said supporting-cylinders and revolving said endless belts, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AUGUST L. SCHNEIDT.

Witnesses:

JAS. B. ERWIN, C. T. BENEDICT. 

